Diffuse Bio is an early-stage startup from YCombinator's 2023 batch that is building a push-button software for drug design, driven by breakthroughs in generative AI. The company’s computational protein design toolkit has been informed by the team’s breakthroughs in AI protein design for the past 6 years, including the first experimental validation of AI-generated proteins and diffusion models for protein structure and sequence. Diffuse Bio was founded in 2022 by Namrata Anand.